Unrequested User name change
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Hi, I’m an admin on a private chat blog. One of our regular commenters has pointed out that her User name has changed without her requesting this. Until 6.44pm on 11/11/16 she posted as RebeccaRiots2, but from 7.08pm the same day, her name appears as Rebecca dRiots2. Has anyone any experience of this happening and how can it be reversed? Thanks.
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Hi,
You identify the commenter as a “User,” but there is no indication that the individual is a WordPress.com member. Certainly she was not logged into a WordPress.com account when using either of the usernames that you mention. In fact, these are not existent WordPress.com usernames. Even if rebeccariots2 were a WordPress.com username, then when she entered the email address required of non-logged in WordPress.com members, then the comment form would automatically fill out the username and gravatar profile page. And consequently, when a comment by that username was posted both the username and the thumbnail would be links, as is the case with your comments on the post Saturday 12th.November, for example.
A likely reason for the change would be copy and paste error. Sometimes while highlighting text in a hurry, we may rearrange characters, or even add another character inadvertently. Once the name was entered incorrectly once, then it might be saved, depending upon browser settings.
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Correction:
…then the comment form would automatically fill out the username and gravatar profile page fields (or boxes).
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